Day of Imprisonment

This time, Luo Xi still didn't take much. Like the copper coins, he only took a hundred silver coins, and all of them were converted into cards.

“Can you let me take a look?” Dou Dou reached out at this time. She knew that Reminiscents had their advantages.

That was cards.

Administrators had the advantage of directly strengthening their physique.

Reminiscents, on the other hand, could turn props into cards, and all the cards, in addition to the lifelike illustrations, also had some 'text descriptions'.

These were all very crucial pieces of information.

“That's it?” Dou Dou felt that the text description was no different from nonsense.

After saying that, she returned the cards to Luo Xi.

“Let's go, let's take a look at the gold coins later.”

According to the plot of the 'Tinderbox' story, next was the gold coin room.

Sure enough, the two of them found the third room very smoothly.

On the equally huge box was a dog with eyes so big that it was terrifying.

The dog's eyes were so big that a car could drive straight into them. Dou Dou's reaction was much greater than the previous two times. Her face was pale, staring at the third dog. The fear in her heart had reached its peak. This time, she didn't dare to act rashly at all.

She felt that she could easily handle the first dog. The second one was a bit evenly matched, but by the third one, she already felt that she was no match for this dog. She even had a sense of crisis that the other party would bite her to death immediately, and this feeling was extremely strong.

“Dou Dou, where did you get these dogs from?” Luo Xi was still as calm as if he was moving flowerpots, and he hugged the dog with exaggeratedly huge eyes down and placed it on the blue checkered apron.

“I told you it wasn't me who got them... Wait a minute, I was wondering about one thing just now. The first dog was okay, but how come the second and third dogs are so big, and yet it feels like you're carrying them effortlessly? A dog of this size would be a bit difficult for even me to carry.” Dou Dou wiped the sweat from her forehead and asked.

“Because this dog only looks like it has big eyes, but it's actually not heavy. Do you want to try?” Luo Xi said with a smile, reached out and touched the big-eyed dog's chin, and even made a 'tsk, tsk, tsk' sound to tease it.

Couldn't reach the head.

Too big.

“Forget it!” Dou Dou glanced at this strange big-eyed dog. Although she had a little idea, she finally waved her hand.

Luo Xi walked over and opened the third big box.

Instantly, golden light shone.

The gold coins in the box, illuminated by the lights in the room, glowed with a golden light, instantly dyeing the entire room gold.

“It's the same as the Tinderbox story.” Dou Dou looked at the box full of gold coins. If ordinary people saw so much gold, they would definitely be excited, after all, this was definitely wealth enough for them to squander for a lifetime.

However, gold didn't have much use within the Day of Imprisonment, at least that's how Dou Dou saw it.

But she still grabbed two handfuls of gold coins and stuffed them into her pockets, enjoying this knowingly false sense of satisfaction.

Luo Xi's reaction was the same as when he faced the boxes of copper and silver coins before.

He picked up a gold coin with a blank expression and observed it carefully, weighed it in his hand, and then turned it into a card.

It also said: This is a gold coin. It is a metal currency, representing a certain unit of value - you can use it to buy things.

It didn't seem to have anything special.

Luo Xi still turned a hundred gold coins into cards and put them into his card book.

“This is gold coins, aren't you going to take more?” Dou Dou's pockets were already full.

“According to the plot, neither copper coins, silver coins, nor gold coins are the most important...” Luo Xi rummaged through the gold coins in the big box. Soon, he found something in the middle.

He reached out and took this thing out.

“Tinderbox, a portable device for storing fire, usually made of metal or hardwood, shaped like a small box, usually containing tinder and flint. This one is very delicate, with a brass shell and a curved wooden handle at the end, engraved with the sun, flames, flowers, and dogs.”

Luo Xi was now carefully observing the tinderbox in his hand.

“This thing, it was found so easily?” Dou Dou also couldn't believe it. She had read the original story a long, long time ago, and she couldn't remember the specific details. She could only remember the general idea.

A soldier met a witch, who asked him to find a tinderbox in a tree hole. Under the tree hole were three dogs and three boxes. The boxes contained copper coins, silver coins, and gold coins respectively. The witch said that all the other wealth could be given to the soldier, only needing the soldier to bring out a tinderbox inside and give it to her.

As a result, the soldier found the tinderbox but didn't give it to the witch. Instead, he used a sword to cut off the witch's head.

After that, this soldier also killed the king and queen, married the princess, and became the new king...

“To be honest, this fairy tale story is quite dark, and the values are not right.” Dou Dou muttered.

She looked at the tinderbox in Luo Xi's hand and suddenly realized something.

“If that old woman just now was the witch, then what she said about whether we can enter the fairy tale town next depends on the choice, that is to say, you need to choose whether or not to return this tinderbox to her?” Dou Dou was the administrator, and many of the games in Dou Dou's game room were designed by her.

Therefore, this kind of selective plot that uses the original plot as a blueprint for secondary creation and processing is easily deduced.

“So, is the choice to give it to her, or not to give it to her?” Luo Xi asked in return at this time.

Indeed, if 'Should I return the tinderbox?' is a choice, then it definitely requires choosing between two options.

And different choices inevitably lead to different outcomes.

“I think following the plot is the right thing to do, and the tinderbox must be a key item... Wait a minute, if I were the game designer, this possibility is something anyone could think of. But the company's requirement is to design challenges and traps within the rules as much as possible, to make the 'Memory Retrievers' fail or trigger traps that lead to death. Such a simple choice would deviate from this original intention!” DouDou was clearly caught in some kind of entanglement.

She was thinking, if the goal was to 'enter the fairytale town,' then which path should she choose at this crucial fork in the road?

The old woman had clearly stated that any choice only had one chance. If she chose wrong, the game would fail, and naturally, she wouldn't be able to explore the real fairytale town.

She started scratching her head anxiously.

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Luo Xi flipped his hand, turning the tinderbox into a card, then materializing it again, and then carding it again, repeating the process.

“What are you doing?”

“Nothing.” Luo Xi then restored the carded tinderbox, thought for a moment, and said: “According to the story, this thing can summon the three dogs we encountered before. If you strike it once, the dog from the bronze coin box will come; if you strike it twice, the dog from the silver coin box will come; if you strike it three times, the dog from the gold coin box will be summoned. All three dogs will obey orders, and besides fighting and bringing bronze coins, silver coins, and gold coins anytime, anywhere, they can also fulfill the master's desires like Aladdin's magic lamp.”

After speaking, Luo Xi held the tinderbox in his hand and murmured: “Such a powerful thing, giving it a serial number is not surprising at all.”

“What?” DouDou was stunned.

Her gaze turned to Luo Xi's hand. The tinderbox in his hand was carded again. Upon closer inspection, it was actually a numbered card.

Number 019 [Tinderbox].

DouDou's eyes widened, filled with disbelief and an indescribable emotion.

“It's actually a numbered card!”

“Yes, I was also very surprised when I got it just now. How should I put it, the difficulty of obtaining this numbered card seems not very high, or rather, there is no difficulty at all.” Luo Xi materialized the card again.

“You can't say there's no difficulty. At least this game, from the entrance to the boat ride, to entering here, this process is not easy. A slight mistake could lead to failure or even death!” DouDou said after thinking for a moment.

“This kind of difficulty doesn't match this numbered card. It's like an appetizer before the main course, the taste is too poor, and the level is extremely inconsistent compared to the main course. So this main course looks even more like a piece of sweet cheese on a mousetrap, clearly bait.”

Luo Xi smiled and casually threw the tinderbox back into the large box full of gold coins.

“You don't want it?” DouDou saw Luo Xi's intention.

Luo Xi nodded: “The description on this card is, 'A tinderbox with magical power that can summon loyal magic dogs to carry out your every command. It can also bring you unimaginable wealth.' The small print in the back describes it as a 'Desire Amplifier!'”

“Desire?” DouDou seemed to understand something: “This thing is a double-edged sword. Using it will bring some drawbacks!”

“Obviously, although I don't care about the drawbacks of this card, and I even really want to take this card item out and keep it for myself to test its power, I can be 100% sure that if I take this tinderbox, I will definitely miss the fairytale town.” Luo Xi got up and continued to walk forward.

DouDou immediately followed, but couldn't help but look back: “How can you be so sure? Don't tell me it's your sixth sense.”

“Besides my sixth sense, there are some other reasons. For example, your analysis just now, thinking that 'Should I return the tinderbox?' is a choice. But I think the real choice is 'Should I take the tinderbox?' Because the protagonist in the fairytale is the soldier, so when you consider the plot, you will inevitably take on this role. But in reality, neither you nor I are the protagonist. So, looking at this matter from an outsider's perspective, a situation will occur: the tinderbox is still here, indicating that the 'soldier' hasn't come yet. If we take the tinderbox, then the fairytale plot we know won't happen.”

Just as he said this, Luo Xi discovered that another fork in the road had appeared ahead.

The left passage was blocked by an iron door, and the right passage also had an iron door, but it was open.

Obviously, this fork in the road could only go to the right.

The two passed through the iron door on the right and continued forward. Soon, they arrived at a very strange place. There was only a suspension bridge connecting to a large device that was obviously tilted to one side a dozen meters away.

And all around were bottomless abysses, dark and lightless.

“What is this place?” DouDou was dumbfounded.

“Aren't you the playmate? This sentence should be me asking you.” Luo Xi joked.

Looking closely, although the large device in front was tilted left and right, it looked very symmetrical, connected by a pillar like a log, with a huge bowl-like metal basin on each side.

DouDou suddenly reacted.

“This... this seems to be a scale!”

Luo Xi nodded, but his gaze was on a door hanging on the cliff face opposite the scale.